Sentence examples for mediocre performer from inspiring English sources

The US has been a mediocre performer in international education tests, based on average performance across the country, but this study shows how this average conceals a remarkably wide range of successes and failures.

Warner Music is a mediocre performer in a troubled industry.

Its vaunted aim is to transform Germany from a mediocre performer into a dazzling "education republic".

You spend all year thinking he's sort of a mediocre performer but then at the end he goes on a miracle run and you realize that the Lord does indeed work in strange and mysterious ways.

The most perfectly mediocre performer in a show built on mediocre performers, Quickenden's worst crime was appearing on X Factor and I'm A Celebrity within weeks of each other.

Schroder's giant unit fund in the sector was a mediocre performer, too, though with a gain of a third in three months and almost three-quarters in a year private investors did a good deal better than holders of the institutional fund.

By 2006, the mediocre performers had much less chance of chalking up a long tenure.

Instead, two of the most mediocre performers — Donald Trump and Ben Carson — are still way out in front.

Without that newfound attention, many of those stocks would continue to languish — and be mediocre performers at best.

What better way to spurn America's élite than to host a concert on the National Mall with a bunch of aggressively mediocre performers?

Instead, the weekly lists of DVDs are full of movies that Hollywood has traditionally considered mediocre performers — small-to-mid-budget comedies, horror films, and dramas, like "Friday Night Lights," "The Notebook," and "Hide and Seek".